Place:

Kemble
Wiltshire

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales
described Kemble like this:

KEMBLE, a parish in the district of Cirencester, and county of Wilts; at the Cirencester Junction station of the Cheltenham and Great Western railway, and on the Thames and Severn canal, adjacent to Gloucestershire, 4 miles SW of Cirencester. It includes the tythings of Ewen and Wick; and its post town is Cirencester. Acres, 3, 600. Real property, with Poole, £7, 002. Rated property of K. alone, £3, 840. Pop., 466. Houses, 80. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to Miss Gordon. ...

An affluent of the Thames rises here; and the water of it is raised, by a steam-engine, to supply the Thames and Severn canal. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £270.* Patron, Miss Gordon. The church is ancient; was partly rebuilt in 1840; has a lofty steeple, which was struck and rent by lightning in 1823; and contains a monument of a Knight Templar, and several other monuments. There are a free school, and charities £23.

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How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth,
History of Kemble, in Cotswold and Wiltshire | Map and description,
A Vision of Britain through Time.